Dryad

Dryad is both an international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences, and a membership organization, governed by journals, publishers, scientific societies, and other s...
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Dryad is both an international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences, and a membership organization, governed by journals, publishers, scientific societies, and other stakeholders. Dryad welcomes data submissions related to published, or accepted, scholarly publications.
Dryad’s objectives are to serve as a repository for tables, spreadsheets, and all other kinds of data that do not have another discipline-specific repository, and to enable scientists to:

validate published findings,

explore new analysis methodologies,

repurpose data for research questions unanticipated by the original authors,

perform synthetic studies, and

utilize data for educational purposes.

Dryad is distinguished by the close association of data deposition with the process and business of scholarly publishing, and by using article publication as a model for how researchers can benefit from data sharing infrastructure. Dryad has the potential to transform the way research data are communicated and preserved. The credibility and effectiveness of the research enterprise is due in large part to the social contract behind scholarly publishing. Researchers disclose their work to their peers in return for professional credit. In so doing, they also expose their findings to be confirmed or refuted, and enable other researchers to build upon their results. Dryad seeks to extend this social contract to research data by providing a model for how a disciplinary repository can motivate researchers to disclose the data that is of the greatest value for scientific reuse, that associated with publications, and realize the manifold benefits of free access to scientific data in perpetuity.
Dryad welcomes the involvement of journals, editors, publishers, authors and others who support data archiving. Authors may submit data files associated with their publications. Editors and journals can facilitate their authors’ data archiving by setting up automatic notifications to Dryad of accepted manuscripts, streamlining the authors’ process for depositing data. To learn more about manuscript submission integration with Dryad, see the complete documentation and illustrations on the Dryad documentation site, or send us an email.
Dryad is being developed by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in coordination with a large group of Journals and Societies. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center is a joint effort of Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University.